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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Rodriguez, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, said the entire state would benefit, should farmworkers feel free to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have security, that means they are also going to invest even more so in the state by buying homes and buying cars and becoming a regular part of California’s economy and its future,” Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for sophisticated border surveillance systems, including drones, fences and thousands of new agents patrolling the border with Mexico. That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. So, it addresses all the major concerns. We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says the hope is to have the Judiciary Committee open the bill for amendments in early May and get it to the Senate floor by early June.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., buzzing with the debut of his new organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> (say: “Forward Us”). What is it exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/what-is-mark-zuckerbergs-fwd-us/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-during-a-press-co/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93966\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS1613_101560214-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a press co\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of other Silicon Valley leaders have founded an immigration reform advocacy organization. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Gabriel Bouys/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been called a lobbying group, a political action committee and a super PAC. But it is not really any of those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s organized under \u003ca href=\"http://source2012.tumblr.com/post/25957855597/cts-explains-nonprofit-groups-a-k-a-501-c-4-s\">Section 501(c)(4)\u003c/a> of the federal tax code, which covers “social welfare” groups. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopici03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the IRS notes\u003c/a>, the law defines these groups very broadly: “An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 501(c)(4)s enjoy charity status, but unlike the more familiar 501(c)(3)s, they can get involved in politics as long as they don’t campaign for or against a specific candidate. And unlike PACs and super PACs, they don’t file campaign disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission. They can take donations of any amount and spend as much as they want, and they’re not required to say where their money comes from.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what sorts of things can organizations like Fwd.us spend their money on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can lobby members of Congress. They can produce ads and buy air time. They can hold rallies and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what \u003cem>will\u003c/em> Fwd.us spend its money on? That’s not clear yet. We haven’t gotten hold of the group yet, but \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch quotes\u003c/a> Fwd.us campaign manager Rob Jesmer as saying “the group’s activities will include engaging the tech community in online advocacy, policy and fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech industry already has a litany of high-powered lobbying groups, so analysts are predicting it will take a different approach. On its staff are people who specialize in digital and grassroots campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has not been clear about how it will spend its money, but Zuckerberg’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">op-ed piece\u003c/a> in the Washington Post earlier this week explains why he and other Silicon Valley leaders launched the group. Fwd.us will advocate for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/immigration_reform\">comprehensive immigration reform\u003c/a> to attract more innovative people. It will also advocate for education reform, with an emphasis on encouraging science, technology, engineering and math programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants,” Zuckerberg wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">Washington Post editorial\u003c/a>. “And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has two offices: one in Silicon Valley and one in Washington, D.C. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/silicon_valley\">Silicon Valley team\u003c/a> will focus on public outreach: the digital components and membership efforts of the campaign. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">Washington team\u003c/a> is focused on advocacy and research, according to the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s president, Joe Green, was Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and the pair created Face Mash (the predecessor of Facebook) together, Business Insider \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-green-missed-facebook-opportunity-2012-5\">reported\u003c/a> last year. But, on the advice of his father, Green declined Zuckerberg’s offer to run the business end of Facebook. He went on to found Nationbuilder, a software platform that helps community groups or leaders organize online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">D.C. office staff\u003c/a> is led by Jesmer, a prominent Republican strategist and former director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He and research director Scott Sloofman, the former deputy director of the Republican National Committee War Room, are counterbalanced by Alinda Garcia, who helped lead the Latino campaign for Obama 2012, and Kate Hansen, formerly of the Democratic Governors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters\">people behind the group\u003c/a> are almost all high-profile Silicon Valley leaders. They include Drew Houston, the founder and CEO of Drop Box, Reid Hoffman, the founder and CEO of LinkedIn and Ron Conway, a prominent technology venture capitalist, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us takes a step towards transparency by listing some of its top donors, though not how much each gave. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Congress takes up comprehensive immigration reform, people from different walks of life will have to come together for the effort to succeed. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304040850/a\">California\u003c/a>, no two places illustrate the bridges that must be built better than Silicon Valley and the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it's proving difficult for high tech and agriculture to span the divide. These neighbors have not even met with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exceptional Immigrants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93408\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93408 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/medina-sadikov-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jetlore founders Monste Medina and Eldar Sadikov. (Jetlore)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jetlore founders Montse Medina and Eldar Sadikov. (Courtesy of Jetlore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jetlore.com/\">Jetlore\u003c/a> is a startup in Sunnyvale that uses algorithms to read the slang in Facebook and Twitter posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founders Montse Medina and Eldar Sadikov are from Spain and Russia, respectively. They are both 28-year-old Stanford University graduates and award-winning authors in artificial intelligence. The office feels like a mini-United Nations, with about a dozen employees from countries that include Romania, Ukraine, Mexico and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said that for years they've been \"dealing with this immigration hell\" and even had to incorporate the business early just to qualify for visas.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their brainpower, Medina and Sadikov are here as temporary guests. They do not have green cards, which are granted to permanent residents. That's a problem they share with millions of immigrants who are at the low end of the economic spectrum—the kind of people who do service-sector jobs or agricultural work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sadikov rejects being compared with a grape picker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I made more impact,\" Sadikov says. \"I think I did more good things for this country. In a way, I deserve to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Other Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Cunha, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a> in Fresno, finds that exceptionalism insulting. He says Silicon Valley types might know complex math but don't \"know a thing about how to prune a grapevine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies' Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cunha works with Central Valley farmers who grow grapes, oranges and cotton. He has campaigned for immigration reform since the Reagan years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha recalled a tense moment in 1996. Agriculture and high tech both wanted visas. High tech told Congress their workers were more valuable, and they won lawmakers' support to move their bill forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha said that point left a lingering impression that Silicon Valley does not care about the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They only worry about them, and they don't worry about the rest of the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigration advocates describe this round of reform as distinct from prior ones because interest groups are forming alliances across class, ethnicity and geography. There are regular meetings among ministers, police, restaurants, unions and chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really comprehensive,\" Cunha said, echoing the name of the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not mean, however, that Cunha is talking with technology leaders. Asked if he's reaching out or visiting anyone in neighboring Silicon Valley, Cunha flipped the question: \"Why haven't they come to the San Joaquin Valley? Because they're better than us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technology Companies Form a Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel Corp. Policy Director Peter Muller has a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't really coordinated message because it's a different set of issues,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has not met with farmers because he's busy meeting with other tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, during the last round of immigration reform discussions, Microsoft and Intel's then-CEO Andrew Grove were outspoken advocates for visas. But the industry as a whole did not engage in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The power players in Silicon Valley are not particularly concerned -- maybe not concerned at all -- about the so-called unskilled immigrants. As soon as you say 'unskilled,' people think poor, uneducated, underachieving.\" --Stanford law Professor Dan Siciliano\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now companies are \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/over-100-leading-tech-executives-urge-president-obama-and-congress-to-enact-high-skilled-immigration-reform/\">petitioning Congress\u003c/a> and organizing a virtual march on Washington, called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marchforinnovation.com/\">March for Innovation\u003c/a>. Facebook is hiring additional lobbyists for the immigration reform campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Silicon Valley, tech companies, realize government is part of what they have to deal with, like it or not,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled his own tense moment in 2012. Intel wanted additional visas for Indian and Chinese workers. Their bill won by a landslide in the House, only to get blocked in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some senators who felt it was not right to deal with that one small issue and thought that there were bigger issues in the immigration arena that needed to be dealt with,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lawmakers want a big, comprehensive bill to address immigration, he said, it's their responsibility to build the bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Siciliano, a Stanford University law professor and entrepreneur, criticized his peers in Silicon Valley for being myopic at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of prejudicial bias built into the way people think about immigration,\" Siciliano said. \"The power players in Silicon Valley are not particularly concerned -- maybe not concerned at all -- about the so-called unskilled immigrants. As soon as you say 'unskilled,' people think poor, uneducated, underachieving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, an advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, has prodded her members to think about endorsing reform proposals that include farmworker visas and legalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless you have some really big objection to the rest of the bill,\" Lam tells them, \"your best chance is to advocate for comprehensive—even if your instinct is indignation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel, Google, Facebook and others worked on a shared platform for the high-tech community—the Immigration Innovation Act. Muller said Intel's support for a comprehensive bill depends on congressional support for the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're focused on the Immigration Innovation Act. And if the pieces ... important to us are included in a broader bill that has other things in it, that's something we'll be supportive of,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using the Tech Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/13/116328/rep_lofgren_sees_hope_for_immigration_reform?category=bay+area\">Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren\u003c/a> (D-San Jose) is a lead negotiator for the House on a bipartisan bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/central-valley-farmworkers.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93430 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/central-valley-farmworkers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Workers harvest tomatoes southeast of Fresno. 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In a way, I deserve to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Other Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manuel Cunha, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a> in Fresno, finds that exceptionalism insulting. He says Silicon Valley types might know complex math but don't \"know a thing about how to prune a grapevine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies' Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cunha works with Central Valley farmers who grow grapes, oranges and cotton. He has campaigned for immigration reform since the Reagan years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha recalled a tense moment in 1996. Agriculture and high tech both wanted visas. High tech told Congress their workers were more valuable, and they won lawmakers' support to move their bill forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunha said that point left a lingering impression that Silicon Valley does not care about the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They only worry about them, and they don't worry about the rest of the country,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many immigration advocates describe this round of reform as distinct from prior ones because interest groups are forming alliances across class, ethnicity and geography. There are regular meetings among ministers, police, restaurants, unions and chambers of commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really comprehensive,\" Cunha said, echoing the name of the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not mean, however, that Cunha is talking with technology leaders. Asked if he's reaching out or visiting anyone in neighboring Silicon Valley, Cunha flipped the question: \"Why haven't they come to the San Joaquin Valley? Because they're better than us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technology Companies Form a Lobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intel Corp. Policy Director Peter Muller has a different take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't really coordinated message because it's a different set of issues,\" Muller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has not met with farmers because he's busy meeting with other tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, during the last round of immigration reform discussions, Microsoft and Intel's then-CEO Andrew Grove were outspoken advocates for visas. But the industry as a whole did not engage in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The power players in Silicon Valley are not particularly concerned -- maybe not concerned at all -- about the so-called unskilled immigrants. 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"content": "\u003cp>“We’re getting a lot of calls,” said the receptionist at Oikos University on Monday, the day before the anniversary of the horror. “But we would like to stay peaceful and quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 2, 2012, for reasons that might never be clear, a gunman shot 10 people, killing seven of them in and around the school. Police arrested One Goh, a Korean national, and said he quickly confessed to the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goh has pleaded not guilty, and was found incompetent to stand trial. A judge ordered him to be treated at Napa State Hospital with the goal of restoring him to sanity so he can stand trial,\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/oakland-school-massacre-suspect-to-be-treated-at-napa-state-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> CBSlocal.com \u003c/a>reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that day, few people in Oakland — let alone the rest of the world — knew about Oikos, a Bible, nursing and music school whose student body has a high quotient of immigrants. Now it finds itself famous for events beyond its control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school held its own service for the victims the week after the massacre, recorded in this video:\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkT6xEOkeU?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven who died — Tshering Bhutia, Sonam Choedon, Doris Chibuko, Grace Euhea Kim, Katleen Ping, Judith\u003c!--more--> O. Seymour and Lydia H. Sim — came from around the world. But the seminary and school of music at the school are predominantly Korean, according to Yoonsil Kae, who teaches music at a sister school in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kae and fellow members of the San Francisco Korean Master Chorale have been planning a concert on the one-year anniversary of the shooting ever since they heard about it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so sorry for the school and the victims,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 45-member chorale will \u003ca href=\"http://www.oikosuniversity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perform\u003c/a> Mozart’s Requiem at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 114 Montecito Ave., Oakland. The concert will feature four soloists and will be accompanied by six stringed instruments and an organ. Civic leaders from Oakland are expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will hold a similar concert in Sacramento on April 13 at 7 p.m. at Capital Korean Presbyterian Church, 1441 Tong Rd., El Dorado Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident has left a difficult legacy for the Korean-American community, reports Jay Caspian Kang, himself a Korean-American, in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nobody in Temescal’s Koreatown wanted to talk about Koreanness and One Goh. The head of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay gave me a lecture on how the subprime-mortgage crisis crippled the Korean community, and she implied that the problem with Korean rage lay in socioeconomic factors. I was politely escorted out of two separate Korean churches after I asked some members of the congregations if they had any concerns about the perceptions of the larger public. Overwhelmingly, the sentiment among the older Korean people I talked to was this: The shooting was a shameful act that would bring trouble on the community if publicized and discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, victims, too, are struggling to make sense of their loss, reports the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22908478/anniversay-oikos-shooting-massacre-oakland-evokes-painful-memories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Almost every night for the last year Wangchen Nyima has been awakened in the middle of the night by a terrible dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees his dead sister, Sonam Choedon, whom he often helped financially, calling out to him in her native Tibetan. “Cho-cho,” she cries out, using the Tibetan word for older brother, “Cho-cho, can I have some pocket money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyima is rarely able to go back to sleep after these encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I keep thinking, ‘Why?'” he said. “I still can’t believe that she’s gone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Sam Harnett\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology companies in California say they can't find enough U.S. programmers to fill jobs. So they're pushing hard for I-Squared, the Immigration Innovation Act, in the U.S. Senate that could more than triple the number of visas for high-skilled foreign workers from 85,000 a year to as many as 300,000. 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Some say that if she does succeed in getting an H-1B, she'll be robbing a job from an American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she's being hired for an H-1B visa based on nine weeks of programming work – Are you kidding me? – then it's an abuse of the visa,” said Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Matloff claims companies use H-1B visas to replace older U.S. programmers with younger, cheaper foreigners like Bajaj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuse is widespread across the board,” he said. “Everybody from the mainstream, household-name firms are abusing the program…. The central issue is wage and mobility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matloff argues that since employers sponsor workers for H-1Bs, it’s tricky for foreigners to negotiate higher salaries or switch jobs. They effectively get handcuffed to their employer at lower wages. That's why businesses want more H-1Bs, Matloff says. 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These businesses place workers in their U.S. offices on H-1Bs to improve the interface between their American client companies and their vast workforces in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the H-1B program has thus become a vehicle for global I.T. firms to outsource tech work that used to be done in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustration with the program doesn't just come from professors like Matloff, or from older, out-of-work American programmers. It can also be heard from H-1B holders themselves, including Ardit Bajraktari. The 32-year-old from Albania says participating in the visa program feels like indentured servitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari is a mobile developer who has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's been programming phones since the early 2000s, years before the first iPhone hit the market. Like many programmers in the Bay Area, Bajraktari has hopped around, working at places like MobiTV, Yammer and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to keep your skill set up to date,” he said, “you have to move companies.”\u003cbr>\nBut every time Bajraktari switches jobs, he loses his H-1B visa sponsorship and risks deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's like you have a sword on your neck,” he said. “You have to find a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari came to the United States at 17 and graduated from Radford University in Virginia. Ever since he started working, a decade ago, Bajraktari has been trying to get a green card, the document granting legal permanent residence. Without it, he said, he will always feel the threat of that sword—deportation. With each new job, though, he must persuade the employer to petition for a green card for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari said his worst green card experience was at Amazon. He says the company promised him a visa during the job negotiations, which motivated him to take the position. Then, he says, it took nearly two years to start moving on the paperwork. It reminded Bajraktari of being in Albania under communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make things move forward you have to threaten your company that you’re not going to work anymore,” he said. “It becomes a weird, weird situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The I-Squared bill now in the Senate has some provisions to address the challenges of H-1B job mobility. It would give employees a 60-day grace period between positions. But employers would still control the green card process. 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Some say that if she does succeed in getting an H-1B, she'll be robbing a job from an American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she's being hired for an H-1B visa based on nine weeks of programming work – Are you kidding me? – then it's an abuse of the visa,” said Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Matloff claims companies use H-1B visas to replace older U.S. programmers with younger, cheaper foreigners like Bajaj.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuse is widespread across the board,” he said. “Everybody from the mainstream, household-name firms are abusing the program…. The central issue is wage and mobility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matloff argues that since employers sponsor workers for H-1Bs, it’s tricky for foreigners to negotiate higher salaries or switch jobs. They effectively get handcuffed to their employer at lower wages. That's why businesses want more H-1Bs, Matloff says. But tech companies have a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lobbying firm TechNet got 100 technology companies to sign a letter to President Obama and Congress, urging them to expand the H-1B program. Dan Turrentine, a vice president at TechNet, says the companies’ main complaint is that they can't find enough American employees to fill their job openings. The cap of 85,000 H-1Bs a year hasn't kept up with the demand for skilled tech workers. “That cap was set back in the ‘90s,” said Turrentine, “when the economy was much less dependent on technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Facebook, Google, and Hewlett-Packard all signed the letter. But the truth is, most H-1B holders aren’t found at these companies. And they aren’t at start-ups either.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don't Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nearly half work at places like Infosys and Wipro – the multi-national information technology workhorses that churn out the unglamorous connective tissue of all modern business: boilerplate coding, user support and network maintenance. These businesses place workers in their U.S. offices on H-1Bs to improve the interface between their American client companies and their vast workforces in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the H-1B program has thus become a vehicle for global I.T. firms to outsource tech work that used to be done in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustration with the program doesn't just come from professors like Matloff, or from older, out-of-work American programmers. It can also be heard from H-1B holders themselves, including Ardit Bajraktari. The 32-year-old from Albania says participating in the visa program feels like indentured servitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari is a mobile developer who has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's been programming phones since the early 2000s, years before the first iPhone hit the market. Like many programmers in the Bay Area, Bajraktari has hopped around, working at places like MobiTV, Yammer and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to keep your skill set up to date,” he said, “you have to move companies.”\u003cbr>\nBut every time Bajraktari switches jobs, he loses his H-1B visa sponsorship and risks deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's like you have a sword on your neck,” he said. “You have to find a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari came to the United States at 17 and graduated from Radford University in Virginia. Ever since he started working, a decade ago, Bajraktari has been trying to get a green card, the document granting legal permanent residence. Without it, he said, he will always feel the threat of that sword—deportation. With each new job, though, he must persuade the employer to petition for a green card for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bajraktari said his worst green card experience was at Amazon. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91911\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91911\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Bahl-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kumal Bahl returned to India after being educated in the U.S. because he could not get a working visa.\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kunal Bahl returned to India to launch a business because he could not get a working visa in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Snapdeal)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As immigration laws make it harder for foreigners to stay and work in the U.S., Silicon Valley is losing some of its most promising talent — and its unrivaled reputation as ground zero for tech innovation. Those who came here for education or to take a stab at fame and fortune are no longer waiting around for a local job and visa to start their careers. They’re going home — to India, China, Brazil, or other countries courting them. With the growth of global tech hubs and the capital available abroad, some immigrant entrepreneurs are wondering why they should bother to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kunal Bahl, who got his engineering and business degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, made money on campus by charging students to watch cricket games. Bahl was hired at Microsoft for what he calls a “super-exciting” role traveling the globe, selling their products in Asia and Latin America. Bahl’s steady climb was halted in 2007, after his professional H1B visa was not chosen in the immigration lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bahl didn’t pine to stay in the U.S. He declined Microsoft’s offer to place him in another country and try again. After losing the lottery, Bahl was ready to place a new bet.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the time is now getting to a point where it would be right to start a business in India,” Bahl said. “Earlier than that, there was just no meaningful internet penetration to start a technology business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at age 29, Bahl is the CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.snapdeal.com\">Snapdeal\u003c/a>, India’s largest e-commerce company (much like eBay) and employs more than 1,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Countries\">How Other Countries Are Vying for Foreign Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#Chile\">Meet the Chile-con Valley Entrepreneurs\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the global market, two big shifts have made it possible for Bahl’s business to grow: First, people in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are going online and buying things at breakneck speed, and what were considered “developing countries” are now called “emerging markets.” Secondly, it’s a lot cheaper to build an internet company than say, a semiconductor plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wave, and this wave is not stopping,”Bahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMERICAN INVESTORS FOLLOW THE TALENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American money is following the foreign talent. Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. The difference now is that Americans like McClure are warming up to start-ups founded and based outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Christen O’Brien, who does market research on the Geeks’ upcoming tour sites, says that when she started in the tech industry in 2006, “venture capital firms wouldn’t invest in start-ups in New York. That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. During his master’s program, Nicolas Shea noticed that many of his fellow students couldn’t get visas to stay in the U.S. After Chile’s earthquake in 2010, Shea talked his government into courting America’s visa rejects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.startupchile.org\">Start-Up Chile,\u003c/a> a tech incubator, gives entrepreneurs $40,000 to build their companies. Unlike American investors, the government does not take a share of the new companies in exchange for the cash. Unlike America’s start-up visa proposal, the companies do not have to employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving taxpayers money to people who don’t vote here, and people who are not forced to hire local talent,” said spokeswoman Maitetxu Larraechea. “We don’t force them to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam tour of the Santiago hub showed that the startup workplace is much like a bunker: two big rooms with 20-something-year-olds hunched over laptops, writing code for their various Internet start-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani,moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani, who hopped on the webcam to share his story, said he worked in the U.S. for five years, and decided to come to Chilecon Valley — yes, that’s what they call it here — because he got tired of being the foreign worker for someone else’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I going to wait 10 more years in Corporate America to get a Green Card when I can go anyplace else in the world like Chile, where they want us to come and start business and give us money to do it?” Melwani said. “Hell yeah, I’m going to Chile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor McClure said that Americans should not be cavalier about our lead in the technology race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s 6.7 billion people who don’t live in the U.S.,” McClure said. “A lot of those people are smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is taking his geeks to Southeast Asia next. Though he hasn’t seen a tech hub that compares to home yet, McClure guesses that within 20 years, it’s entirely possible that a Chilecon Valley will overtake Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click play to hear the story from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303210850/c\">The California Report\u003c/a> on how immigration law is impacting Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/84287393″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca name=\"Countries\">HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VYING FOR FOREIGN TALENT\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the global economic crisis, many countries have been courting foreign entrepreneurs. From the U.K. to Chile, American citizens are among the largest applicant pool. Take a look at who’s in the game:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">\u003cstrong>Description\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>United Kingdom\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2008, the UK gave foreign nationals a fast track to citizenship through its ‘entrepreneur visa’ program. If in 3 years the entrepreneur creates 10 permanent jobs in the UK or generates at least £5m in income, she can stay without bars to working. The UK program is small, with under 500 visas granted in the year ending June 2012. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/553d1c5e-7d0a-11e2-8bd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0jsaUar\">Financial Times\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>New Zealand\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2009, New Zealand created a fast track to permanent residence for entrepreneurs who have been self-employed there for at least two years and benefited the country through investment money or job creation. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/invest/entrepreneur/\">Immigration New Zealand\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Chile\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">Following Chile’s earthquake in 2010, the government launched a development program to give visas and $40,000 to entrepreneurs. The government does not take any ownership stake in the start-up, but requires the immigrant to give classes to natives on entrepreneurship. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupchile.org\">Startup Chile\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Canada\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">This year Canada begins giving permanent residency to an estimated 2750 start-up entrepreneurs and their families. Qualified applicants must speak English or French, and get an approved Canadian investor to commit seed funding.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupvisa.ca/\">Start Up Visa Canada \u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Australia\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Australia revamped its visa program to admit immigrants with demonstrated business experience. To stay permanently, the entrepreneur has to generate income and create 2 new jobs within 3 years — or 5 years with support from state/territory of residence.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=896\">Australian Visa Bureau and Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Ireland\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Ireland began taking visa applications from foreign entrepreneurs. Citizens outside the European Union with a start-up idea and funding of at least €75,000can get residency in five-year tranches. Ireland’s Ministry says it didn’t set job creation targets because “such businesses can take some time to get off the ground.” Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/New%20Programmes%20for%20Investors%20and%20Entrepreneurs%5D%5D\">Irish Naturalization and Immigration Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=896\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a> has written a lot about Start-Up Visa efforts around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca name=\"Chile\">MEET THE CHILE-CON VALLEY ENTREPRENEURS\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-92030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Aljosha-Novakovic-150x150.png\" alt=\"Aljosha Novakovic\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Aljosha Novakovic calls himself “Yosh” because no matter where he lives, he says “no one can pronounce my name.” The Serbian-American is a U.S. citizen who grew up in San Jose, studied psychology at U.C. Santa Barbara, and headed to Chile to build Medko – a global health network of patients and doctors. Many of the foreign entrepreneurs being courted by countries like the UK and Chile are American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92029 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Carlos-Gonz%C3%A1lez--150x150.png\" alt=\"Carlos González\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, a citizen of Spain, got his MBA at U.C. Berkeley and worked for a Silicon Valley start-up. Gonzalez says he went to Chile because “Latin America is blowing up like crazy,” and Santiago is a good place to expand his business. Gonzalez is building Floqq, a marketplace for online courses in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92031 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani2-150x150.png\" alt=\"Jeetu Melwani\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Jeetu Melwani, an Indian citizen, is building keeZILLA, a site that uses algorithms to change how people shop online. Melwani says he lived in the US for five years before coming to Santiago, and could not find a way to start a business in the US while keeping his legal status. He’s nostalgic for Los Angeles, and recalls when a friend visited from back home, they rented a 350Z Nissan sports car and “ripped it all over town.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wave, and this wave is not stopping,”Bahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMERICAN INVESTORS FOLLOW THE TALENT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American money is following the foreign talent. Leading venture capitalists are opening offices in Asia and Latin America in order to more easily scout start-ups, and funds that buy start-ups are promoting foreigners to be partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91957\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-20-at-9.23.49-PM-300x157.png\" alt=\"Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneur across the world to look for new opportunities.\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geeks On a Plane takes tech entrepreneurs across the world to look for new opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure is eager to invest. McClure is the captain of a global expedition he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.geeksonaplane.com/\">Geeks On A Plane:\u003c/a> “Fifty crazy people from all over the globe, having fun, learning about technology and meeting new friends,” as he explains in his promotional video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve known for a long time that capital is global and money knows no borders. The difference now is that Americans like McClure are warming up to start-ups founded and based outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Christen O’Brien, who does market research on the Geeks’ upcoming tour sites, says that when she started in the tech industry in 2006, “venture capital firms wouldn’t invest in start-ups in New York. That was too far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure, who just returned from India, where he took a gang of investors and technologists to visit Bahl’s company Snapdeal and newer ones, estimates “at least 25 percent of our investment strategy is probably outside the U.S. and that’s probably growing to 50 percent over the next two or three years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean McClure is done with America. Silicon Valley is his home, and he wants this round of immigration reform to make it easier for foreign tech entrepreneurs to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years McClure and fellow investors have pushed for a new brand of visas, dubbed Start-up Visas, with the premise that it will help stop the so-called “Reverse Brain Drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visa, now part of the immigration reform debate in Congress, would allow foreign entrepreneurs who start businesses in the U.S. to stay, so long as they generate revenue, have American investors and employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in fact, the crazy thing is after we tried to announce these ideas, other countries copied the idea and passed legislation before we did,” McClure said. “And we’re still sitting here with our thumbs up our asses, trying to get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER COUNTRIES LURE ENTREPRENEURS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile got it done, thanks to a Chilean citizen educated at Stanford Business School. During his master’s program, Nicolas Shea noticed that many of his fellow students couldn’t get visas to stay in the U.S. After Chile’s earthquake in 2010, Shea talked his government into courting America’s visa rejects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.startupchile.org\">Start-Up Chile,\u003c/a> a tech incubator, gives entrepreneurs $40,000 to build their companies. Unlike American investors, the government does not take a share of the new companies in exchange for the cash. Unlike America’s start-up visa proposal, the companies do not have to employ others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving taxpayers money to people who don’t vote here, and people who are not forced to hire local talent,” said spokeswoman Maitetxu Larraechea. “We don’t force them to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam tour of the Santiago hub showed that the startup workplace is much like a bunker: two big rooms with 20-something-year-olds hunched over laptops, writing code for their various Internet start-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Gitu-Malwani1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani,moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani moved from the U.S. to Chile for better opportunities.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indian citizen Jeetu Melwani, who hopped on the webcam to share his story, said he worked in the U.S. for five years, and decided to come to Chilecon Valley — yes, that’s what they call it here — because he got tired of being the foreign worker for someone else’s company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I going to wait 10 more years in Corporate America to get a Green Card when I can go anyplace else in the world like Chile, where they want us to come and start business and give us money to do it?” Melwani said. “Hell yeah, I’m going to Chile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investor McClure said that Americans should not be cavalier about our lead in the technology race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s 6.7 billion people who don’t live in the U.S.,” McClure said. “A lot of those people are smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is taking his geeks to Southeast Asia next. Though he hasn’t seen a tech hub that compares to home yet, McClure guesses that within 20 years, it’s entirely possible that a Chilecon Valley will overtake Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click play to hear the story from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303210850/c\">The California Report\u003c/a> on how immigration law is impacting Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/84287393″&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/84287393″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca name=\"Countries\">HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VYING FOR FOREIGN TALENT\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the global economic crisis, many countries have been courting foreign entrepreneurs. From the U.K. to Chile, American citizens are among the largest applicant pool. Take a look at who’s in the game:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">\u003cstrong>Description\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>United Kingdom\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2008, the UK gave foreign nationals a fast track to citizenship through its ‘entrepreneur visa’ program. If in 3 years the entrepreneur creates 10 permanent jobs in the UK or generates at least £5m in income, she can stay without bars to working. The UK program is small, with under 500 visas granted in the year ending June 2012. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/553d1c5e-7d0a-11e2-8bd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0jsaUar\">Financial Times\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>New Zealand\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2009, New Zealand created a fast track to permanent residence for entrepreneurs who have been self-employed there for at least two years and benefited the country through investment money or job creation. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/invest/entrepreneur/\">Immigration New Zealand\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Chile\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">Following Chile’s earthquake in 2010, the government launched a development program to give visas and $40,000 to entrepreneurs. The government does not take any ownership stake in the start-up, but requires the immigrant to give classes to natives on entrepreneurship. Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupchile.org\">Startup Chile\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Canada\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">This year Canada begins giving permanent residency to an estimated 2750 start-up entrepreneurs and their families. Qualified applicants must speak English or French, and get an approved Canadian investor to commit seed funding.Source: \u003ca href=\"http://startupvisa.ca/\">Start Up Visa Canada \u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">\u003cstrong>Australia\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" width=\"306\">In 2012, Australia revamped its visa program to admit immigrants with demonstrated business experience. 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